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Arellia Application Control Solution 8.0 introduced the ability to target targets applications based upon on where they were downloaded from . This means that customers can now so that you can choose to allow standard users to install signed software from approved websites.

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Feature introduced in Arellia 8.0

Steps

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To set up a Download Source Filter, do the following steps:

  1. In the Security Manager Console, click Policies
  2. In the file library in the left pane, navigate to Policies > Arellia Solutions > Application Control > Filters > My Filters Filters. 
  3. Right-click on the My Filters Filters folder and select click New > Dynamic File Filters > Download Source Filter Name the new filter and set the host informationIf Filter.
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  4. In the Create Item dialog box, enter the Name and Description.
  5. In the right pane, click the following settings:
    1. If, for example, you want to target all of adobe.com and all sub-domains of adobe.com, use a partial match type for adobe.com
    2. You can also target a specific sub-domain and directory of a website, such as ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/
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  6. Save the filter
  7. Navigate to 
    1. then in the Match Type menu choose Partial.
    2. In the Download host field enter adobe.com.
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  8. Click Save.

To set up the privilege elevation policy, do the following steps:

  1. In the file library in the left pane, navigate to Policies > Arellia Solutions > Application Control > Policies Policies.
  2. Right-click Policies and select click New > Elevate Process Rights Set Rights. 
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  3. In the right pane under Settings, next to Applications click the Select link. 
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  4. Highlight and choose the applications the policy should target to the new download source filter created in step 2.you created previously.
  5. Click Save.

 

Tip
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For additional security,

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we recommend you

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include a Signed File Filter that uses trusted certificate(s) from that domain.

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This policy will now automatically elevate applications downloaded from adobe.com and signed by the current Adobe certificate. 

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Download Source Filter